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AIT ARTIST TALK #75
"Indefinite ways of actual seeing"
by Charlott Markus from the Netherlands
Date: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Time: 19:00 - 21:00 (18:30 Door open)
Venue: Daikanyama AIT Room
Support: Mondriaan Fonds
*All admissions with 1 drink / Booking required / Consecutive Japanese translation available


Left: Detail of front side of the work 'Partition #3 (Markus&I)', 2018
Right: Detail of backside of the work 'Partition #3 (Markus&I)', 2018


AIT is pleased to host the artist talk by our current artist in residence from the Netherlands, Charlott Markus, with the support of Mondriaan Fund. Markus is staying with us in Japan until April 4th.

A Sweden-born, Amsterdam-based artist, Charlott Markus started her artistic career by making various still-life photographs, pursuing the trajectories of the remnants that our society left behind. Yet her recent artwork still traces two-dimensional components but over time, her practice enhances spatial configurations to construct installations with more stories to tell beyond still-life photographs. It can be described as 'extended still-life', the artist explains where she explores possibility and its limit to create untold narratives and meanings. Her research touches down on the hidden stories of found objects and how they are constructed and transformed. Markus for example, employs old and used fabrics such as curtains to bring us the experience in transcendence of time, while immersing our imagination through many objects and materials in her multi-layered installation.

To excavate "Unseen" and "Hidden" subjects in her artwork is great pleasure, when viewers are encouraged to walk from various directions to approach, even from behind. However, the props such as curtains and partitions are almost paradoxically seen in her installations, as the spatial structure with those props questions existent perspective and challenges our spontaneous action to see. Her artwork gently invites us to sense the emotional bounce between consciousness and unconsciousness, and suddenly such action through the artistic experience becomes emphasized.

At this talk, Markus will speak about her previous artworks, and the recent involvement in the research upon the Japanese textile (Boro). The event is part of the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2019, with the theme, The Art of Transposition that compositing an art exhibition, screenings, and symposia alongside. We look forward to welcoming you.
We hope that you can join us.

2019-1-31

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